Cutting-board.



No. 844,075. PATENTBD FEB. 12, 1907.

' H. ZIMMERMAN. CUTTING BOARD.

LPPLIOATIOH FILED JUNE 25, 1906.

UNITED sTA'rns PAIENT OFFICE.

HARRY ZIMMERMAN, OF FREMONT, OHIO.

CUTTINCQ-BOARD. 1

Application filed Tune 25,

To a whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, HARRY ZIMMERMAN, a citizen of the United States, andresident of Fremont, Send'usky county, State of Ohio, have inventedcertain new and useful improvements in Cutting-Boards, of which thefollowing is a specification.

hitting-boards as ordinarily constructed for use in machines PTOVldCdwith cutters for cuttinglarge masses of fabric placed upon the boardgenerally consist of blocks with their end gn'iin at the face of theboard connected permanently together. In many uses such boards will beso cut by the dies or cutters as to necessitate ref-acing in the courseof a few hours, the said facing consist ing in planing oil thecutting-board until the damaged pertions are ren'iovedi This planingoperation is expensive, costing from two to live tr six dollars at eachoperation, and to aymirl this expense, as well as reduce the cost ofmaking the cutting-hoards. I construct the same as fully set forth.hereinafter and illustrated in the aceoni 'ianying drawings, in whjch-Figure l is a plan view of a cutting-board constructed in accrrdaneewith my unprovement; Fig. 2, a section on the line 2 2, Fig. 1; Fig 3, apersi'lectivc View of one of the block.) ilrteched; Fig. 4, aprrspeetivc View illustrating a different way of reccssing the blocks.

The board consists of a srries of rectangular blocks A of any suitable'nniportioiis, but cut so that the end grain will he presented to theface, and each block has one or more channels (1 extending in onedirection and one or more channels I) extending in a dil'ecthsn at rightangles to the channel a.

The blocks are arranged in contact in rows with the channels a in linewith each other, and successive. rows are arranged so that the channelsI) will be in line, and through each series of channels a there ispassed a tie rod or bolt C, and through each series of channels I) ispassed a similar tie rod or bolt 1). These belts or rods are providedwith heads and nuts and-wo hers at the ends when no frame is used, thateach row of blocks is tied together in line by one of the rods in onedirection and is tied to the adjacent row by the various rods passing inthe direction at right Specification of Letters Patent Patented Feb. 12,1907 1996. Serialllo 323.299.

angles to the first. By this means the blocks are tied securely andeffectively but separately together, so that by withdrawing the rods theblocks maybe handled individually, and instead of being planed down to anew surface after being cut by the cutters the injured surfaces may beremoved by sawing the blocks transversely with a reciprocating orcircular saw, an operation which may be performed upon the entire seriesof blocks of a cutting-board in a few minutes, when they are replacedand connected together as before By this means I avoid all of the expenses incident to the ordinary modes of constructing the boards anddressing the same.

Instead of connecting the blocks by bolts pron-net at the ends withwashers bearing on the blocks themselves I may arrange the blocks withina frame l) of proper construction, the bolts passing through openings inthe frame, and in order to properly handle the board the latter may be'iroyided with a hanziholrl. One n'iethoil of forming the latter isshown in Fig. l and consists in bending out or cutting away one of theside pieces of the frame at In many cases it is desirable to have a support for the material at one side of the cutting-board, and to providesuch a support I extend the frame E beyond the mass of blocks at oneside and support a platform F by the extension. As shown, the saidplatform is supportel at one side by angle-bars d, bolted to the ends ofthe rods 0, and at the other side of the frame by angle-bars e, boltedto the sides of the frames.

The channels a b may extend through the body of each block at rightangles, as shown in Fig. 3, or they may be fOI'lllBIl in the sides ofthe blocks, as shown in. Fig. 4.

- Without lln'iiting myself to the precise construction shown, l. claimas my invention 1. The con'ibinat'ion in a cutting-board, of a series ofseparable blocks arranged in rows and in contact with each other, eachhaving recesses at right angles to each other, and tierods extending atright angles to each other through said recesses.

2. The combination in a cutting-board, of a series of separable blocksarranged in contact, each having recesses at right angles to the blocks,and a platform supported by the to each other, a frame inclosing saidblocks, and extended portion of the frame. M

tie-rods extending at right angles to each In testimony whereof I aflixmy signature other through the said recesses and conin presence of twowitnesses. nected to the frame. 7 7 1 3. The combination in acutting-board, a HARR1 ZIMMLRMAN' series of blocks arranged in contact,means Witnesses: for connecting the blocks together, a frame CHARLES E.FOSTER,

inclosing and extending at one side beyond EDWIN S. CLARKSON.

